Koontzland - Dean Koontz discussion

Sole Survivor will be featured as a Group Read during the month of May.

Thanks, Dustin.

Dark Rivers of the Heart and Sole Survivor tied on the poll so they are both May Group Reads.

I'm looking forward to the discussion.

Me too. I'll be reading this book second.

Now I remember that I asked that question and Dustin answered. DUH

I like Sole Survivor best, but I'll read Dark Rivers of the Heart first :-)

will be starting it soon this month

Part one done a great start to the book and of course theirs a passing mention of a golden retriever.

I don't own this one but have read it a couple times so will keep an eye on this discussion and try to contribute (productively?) if I can. I purchased the movie from Amazon which is pretty good so I may watch that as a refresher lol.

Is the movie worth watching or does it go way off base like Watchers and Intensity ?

I am still reading Dark Rivers, planning to start Sole Survivor within the week.

FYI: For those interested in films adapted from Dean Koontz works, you may enjoy looking at the following discussion thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
My personal opinion is that Odd Thomas has been the best adaptation, Phantoms would be second in my book.

Sole Survivor is, overall, good. Because it's a 2 part miniseries made for Fox TV, some of the acting is merely OK, but the story is there. The climax is quite different from the novel, by the way, but I actually liked the movie's finale better than the book's.

What are you reading now if you've already finished Dark Rivers and not reading Sole Survivor? Going to take a break from Dean Koontz until June?

I think once I'm done with Dark Rivers (200 pages to go!) i will take a bit of a break from Koontz until Silent Corner. I think I will participate in the Intensity mini-discussion group though. My reading pile has gotten mountainous so I'm playing this all by ear. At the moment, I'm also 3/4 of the way through Stephen King's Bazaar of Bad Dreams story collection. It's fun reading Koontz and King in tandem, btw.

I'm reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Currently on Book 4 - Wizard and Glass.

What will the group read for June be?

Preparing yourself for The Dark Tower movie in August, I'm guessing? Is this your 1st journey towards the Tower, or a refresher course?

I have a little more to go in Sole Survivor . I'm not sure if I will participate in the Intensity mini group read as I have three HUGE King books to read this summer plus the scheduled monthly Koontz books.

Matthew wrote: "I think once I'm done with Dark Rivers (200 pages to go!) i will take a bit of a break from Koontz until Silent Corner. I think I will participate in the Intensity mini-discussion group though. My ..."

That'll be a short break from Koontz. The Silent Corner countdown is less than one month :-)

Julia wrote: "
What will the group read for June be?"

The Darkest Evening of the Year is our June Group Read.
The Silent Corner will be featured June 20 - end of July.

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "Julia wrote: "
What will the group read for June be?"

The Darkest Evening of the Year is our June Group Read.
The Silent Corner will be featured June 20 - end of July."

Awesome! I already have the first one & I've pre-ordered the second one. :)

A very emotional book and a great read

I am currently reading Sole Survivor. I find it interesting that the phrase "Fear Nada"/ "Fear Nothing" appears in chapters five & six. Sole Survivor was published in 1997, Fear Nothing was published in 1998 - an connection in the Dean Koontz Universe.

Dustin, a wise man once said, "In the Dean Koontz universe, there are no coincidences."

Thanks Karen B.

Holy Shit! Reading Sole Survivor & The Silent Corner at the same time, I am once again astonished at the similarities between the two stories, just like when I was reading Dark Rivers of the Heart & The Silent Corner at the same time. You Koontzlanders sure know how to pick the right books to prepare for Dean's newest book - so many connections in The Dean Koontz Universe.

This book was a much faster going for me than Dark Rivers of the Heart. The phrase "From the Corner of His Eye" kept showing up in the story - I get the feeling that Dean really likes that phrase and was holding out using it for a title until the right story came along. There are also several similarities between Sole Survivor and False Memory.

There are numerous references of Alternate Realities in Sole Survivor.

Dustin Crazy little brown owl wrote: "There are numerous references of Alternate Realities in Sole Survivor."

Awesome, I haven't read it yet but love books with alternate realities and/or time travel! That motivates me to want to read it.

Our minds must operate on the same wavelength/frequency, Julia.

In Sole Survivor, we find Joe Carpenter, grieving from the loss of his family. His mind slips into alternate realities very subtly & typically he bounces back to the origin reality rather quickly. I find myself doing this quite often as well as an escapist.